Breweries: A booming industry

Mike Dickinson, Marketing Director at Russell Scanlan takes a look at this thriving sector and why it’s so important to create tailoredpolicies for breweries.

Scotland’s brewing industry has seen major growth in the last eight years, with the number of brewing enterprises increasing by 229 percent. Nottingham-based insurance brokers Russell Scanlan has specialised in brewery insurance since 2007, counting Scottish brewery East Neuk Brewing & Distilling amongst its clients. Here, Marketing Director Mike Dickinson (pictured) takes a look at this thriving sector and why it’s so important to create tailored policies for breweries.

“It’s very encouraging to see such a significant rise in the number of breweries, with 135 brewing enterprises now operating in Scotland, compared with just 34 in 2010, and 2,000 across the UK as a whole. The microbrewing sector has taken off at speed over the last decade and has become a shining example of an innovative British industry. But with any new sector of business, it has changed rapidly as it has settled into a profitable model and with that change comes complexity which many small brewers have found hard to keep up with.